Ha ha! Yeah, nice point... However: 1. I didn't have $10,000 21 years ago; 2. I didn't have the strategy 21 years ago; 3. Like with any backtest paper gains are just that. That's the whole point with a poll like this: Did people take all the money made out of the market and actually made 200% or are they paper gains only. Mine don't even buy me a bread! Going forward I'd be totally happy if I "only" made half of that 59% per year. If the 2 years that I've been investing in it with real money plus the backtest show at least some insight in that then I'll go with the odd. drftr